The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

Announcement of winners of the seventy-fifth competition held on December 6, 2014

Winning Teams

Rank

School

Team Members (in alphabetical order)

1

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Mitchell M. Lee, Zipei Nie, and David H. Yang

2

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Calvin Deng, Malcolm Granville, and Xiaoyu He

3

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Theerawat Bhudisaksang, Owen Goff, and Wijit Yangjit

4

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Kangning Chen, Sam Eisenstat, and Daniel Spivak

5

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

Linus U. Hamilton, Thomas E. Swayze, and Samuel Zbarsky

The first place team receives an award of $25,000 and each member of the team receives $1,000. The awards for second place are $20,000 and $800; for third place $15,000 and $600; for fourth place $10,000 and $400; and for fifth place $5,000 and $200.

In each of the following categories, the listing is in alphabetical order.

The Putnam Fellows--The Six Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $2,500.

RAVI JAGADEESAN

Harvard University

ZIPEI NIE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MARK A. SELLKE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BOBBY C. SHEN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID H. YANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LINGFU ZHANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Next Ten Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $1,000.

JOSHUA D. BRAKENSIEK

Carnegie Mellon University

CALVIN DENG

Harvard University

OFER GROSSMAN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ALBERT GU

Carnegie Mellon University

BENJAMIN P. GUNBY

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ZHAORONG JIN

California Institute of Technology

MITCHELL M. LEE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RAY LI

Carnegie Mellon University

NAT SOTHANAPHAN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

VICTOR Y. WANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Next Eleven Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $250.

MICHAEL T. DRUGGAN

Carnegie Mellon University

MALCOLM J. GRANVILLE

Harvard University

EUNSOO JEE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YUTAO LI

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SAMMY Y. LUO

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DANIEL SPIVAK

University of Waterloo

THOMAS E. SWAYZE

Carnegie Mellon University

ANDERSON S. WANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DONGHAO WANG

University of California, Berkeley

HENGYUN ZHOU

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TIANYOU ZHOU

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Honorable Mention: Teams

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Xiangyi Huang, Zhaorong Jin, Tian Nie

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Tudor Padurariu, Peihao Sun, Dillon Zhi

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Feng Gui, Alex Milu, Anthony Qiao

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Gyujin Oh, Albert Zhang, Zhivko Zhechev

YALE UNIVERSITY

Lyndon Ji, Alexandros Mousatov, Xiao Wu

Honorable Mention: Individuals

JIE JUN ANG, Stanford University

WEERACHAI NEERANARTVONG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RODRIGO S. ANGELO, Princeton University

MINH PHUONG NGUYEN, Stony Brook University

ANDRE A. ARSLAN, Princeton University

GYUJIN OH, Stanford University

VISHAL ARUL, Stanford University

TUDOR PADURARIU, University of California, Los Angeles

ITAI BAR-NATAN, University of Toronto

EDWARD S. PARK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ALYAZEED BASYONI, Carnegie Mellon University

HUY J. PHAM, Stanford University

THEERAWAT BHUDISAKSANG, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

NIPUN PITIMANAAREE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OMER CERRAHOGLU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ZHICHENG QIAO, Duke University

ZEHAN CHAO, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

VICTOR O. REIS, Cornell University

HERMAN H. CHAU, Stanford University

TOMER REITER, Carnegie Mellon University

EVAN CHEN, Harvard University

JOSEPH L. RICHEY, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

YONGYI CHEN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BRIAN R. RIEDEL, Carnegie Mellon University

MICHAEL CHOW, University of Toronto

SAGNIK SAHA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ALEXANDER J. CLIFTON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ABRAM SANDERSON, Harvey Mudd College

RAHUL DALAL, Harvard University

ERIC D. SCHNEIDER, Princeton University

OCTAV DRAGOI, Harvard University

JEFFREY D. SHEN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAMES R. DRAIN, Dartmouth College

TONGJIA SHI, Harvey Mudd College

VAHID FAZEL-REZAI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GAURAV J. SINGH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YIBO GAO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NATCHANON SUAYSOM, Harvey Mudd College

HAIDONG GONG, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

LAWRENCE J. SUN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YUZHOU GU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ALAN M. TALMAGE, Washington University, St. Louis

XIAOYU HE, Harvard University

JONATHAN B. TIDOR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

XIANGYI HUANG, California Institute of Technology

HAI TRAN BACH, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

LYNDON L. JI, Yale University

BRIAN A. WAI, Stanford University

PAKAWUT JIRADILOK, Harvard University

JESSE K. WANG, Yale University

BENJAMIN J. KRAFT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ZIHAO WANG, Harvard University

AARON LANDESMAN, Harvard University

DAI YANG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JASON M. LI, Carnegie Mellon University

WIJIT YANGJIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

DAVID J. LICHKO, California Institute of Technology

XINWEI YAO, Yale University

IAN R. McMEEKING, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

ALLEN L. YUAN, Harvard University

ALEXANDROS MOUSATOV, Yale University

ALBERT R. ZHANG, Stanford University

Questions Committee

Hugh Montgomery (Chair), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Henry Cohn, Microsoft and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Savitt, University of Arizona.

A total of 4320 students from 577 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the Competition. There were teams from 431 institutions. More complete details will appear in the American Mathematical Monthly.

March 17, 2015
Leonard F. Klosinski, Director; Gerald L. Alexanderson and Mark Krusemeyer, Associate Directors
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